[Not an issue] Help for debugging purpose. about spark-server

[jlkalberer]

Hi,

for the most part I just use console.log and don't put breakpoints in.

Babel is just the transpiler so when you're working you'll want to always work in the src directory. If you need to debug spark-protocol as well, we use npm link so that the node_module references your spark-protocol on disk. Then when I'm running npm start in spark-server I run npm start in spark-protocol as well so it build any changes there.

What exactly are you trying to debug?

[straccio]

Solved with this guide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxCCXXcqJfw

now i check how to use spark-protocol sources.

[jlkalberer]

Ahh.. you will probably need to hack on some things to make that work since we use the transpiled source (dist folder) when running spark-protocol in spark-server

[AntonPuko]

this should work:

1. setup the webstorm debugger for spark-server project, for node interperter choose ./node_modules/.bin/babel-node(.cmd for windows)
2. in spark-protocol: npm link and in package.json change main from ./dist/index.js to ./src.index.js
3. in spark-server: npm link spark-protocol
4. run the debugger

[straccio]

Tnx, now i can debug!

[straccio]

Can i contribute to this repository?

[jlkalberer]

Yeah, we'd love any additional help. What feature are you planning on building?

[straccio]

Actually i need to put the data outs from devices in an "abstract container".
The container can be Mongo DB or anything else (in this moment i think fluentd + kibana).
I'm building a smarthome with particle photons and other devices that they connect in the same way to spark-server.

Anyway i can help to add "cluster/balancing" features, i have done that several times with others programs using ZeroMQ or memcache to share resources inside and outside the "server" and keepalived to balance or distribute the load over a fleet.